Insanity in the Middle

Welcome to#EventerFailFriday, a support group for sharing your most strugglebus moments. From slightly sticky moments to full-on bombs, join us in celebrating the fact that every road to success is paved with a few potholes.

Look, if there’s one thing that’s quite plain to see, it’s that we’re on the cusp of a French takeover. With victories at Le Lion d’Angers and Pau, they’re only building in strength, power, and enviably

Today marks the beginning of the equestrian world’s least beloved annual tradition, No-Stirrup November. Riding sans stirrups has obvious benefits — the promise of thighs of steel and a velcro butt in a month’s time

When it comes to solving #EventerProblems, determination coupled with creativity goes a long way. Here are a few more of your most clever solutions to your most real struggles! Normal dishes right??? #eventerproblems #eventersolutions #3dayeventing

8,343 struggles later you guys and your horses are still going strong. Keep up the good work, citizens of EN! And keep tagging ’em #EventerProblems on Instagram for inclusion in a future edition. I guess

Way-over, not-quite-under or just-take-the-whole-fence-out … style be darned, we eventers are determined to get to the other side. Here are a few of our favorite #EventerFailFriday feats from the last few weeks! Be sure to

From minor hoarding tendencies to fashion malfunctions, eventing gear accounts for a large percentage of #EventerProblems. Here are a few of your own! Tack room organizing, how to fit all my stuff in a 6×12

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” said American transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson in his 1841 essay “Self Reliance.” I’m not sure what a hobgoblin is (event horse says: a frightening creature

There was a great deal of champagne-soaked celebration on the awards podium following Saturday night’s U.S. Open Relay Arena Eventing competition. Up on the highest perch we had Team East Village (Ryan Wood and Dom

Equestrian sport, and eventing in particular, is something most of us associate with wide-open, rural spaces. So there’s some cognitive dissonance to see it transplanted into a polar opposite context — like the heart of

Your dogs were out and about over the weekend at Plantation Field International Horse Trials in Unionville, Pennsylvania! This canine-friendly event even featured demonstrations from Tail Blazers Agility Club of the Brandywine Valley, PA. is taking

In August 2017 writer/rider Leslie Wylie conquered her most fearsome feat of #YOLO yet: a 620-mile race across Mongolia. Riding 27 semi-wild native horses. Carrying only 11 pounds of gear. Relying on nomads for food, water

Sometimes, it just takes a little … creativity. Here are a few of your most genius solutions to your most real struggles. No spills here! #eventerproblems @eventingconnect A post shared by Finley Habenicht (@grandtimeseventing) on